IWSG2017

International Workshop for Systems Genetics 2017

2017
International Workshop for Systems Genetics

 

Program

Friday, June 23 (Day 1)

Time Program
9:30am-
10:00am
Registration
10:00am- 10:10am
Opening Remark Satoru Miyano (The University of Tokyo)

Session 1: Multi-omics analysis

10:10am-
10:45am
Functional genomics of aging-related neurodegeneration
Towfique Raj (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital)
10:45am-
11:20am
High resolution genetic mapping of causal regulatory interactions in the human genome
Natsuhiko Kumasaka (Sanger Institute)
11:20am-
11:55am
Statistical genetics toward drug discovery
Yukinori Okada (Osaka University)
11:55am- 1:15pm
Lunch and networking (80min)

Session 2: Cancer

1:15pm-
1:50pm
Whole genome sequence and comprehensive variant analysis of human and cancer genome
Akihiro Fujimoto (Kyoto University)
1:50pm-
2:25pm
Systematic identification of somatic variants causing cis-splicing alterations
Yuichi Shiraishi (The University of Tokyo)
2:25pm- 2:45pm
Break (20min)

Session 3: Statistical genetics for disease

2:45pm-
3:20pm
Genetic analyses of body mass index identify cell-types and diseases relevant to obesity
Masato Akiyama (RIKEN)
3:20pm-
3:55pm
Genetics of rare mutations in neurodevelopmental diseases
Eli A. Stahl (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
3:55pm-
4:45pm
Keynote: The Genetics and functional genomics of immune-mediated diseases
Soumya Raychaudhuri (Broad Institute)
5:15pm-
7:00pm
Reception


Saturday, June 24 (Day 2)

Time Program
9:30am-
10:00am
Registration

Session 4: Methodology for statistical genetics

10:00am-
10:35am
Robust genetic prediction of complex traits with the latent dirichlet process regression models
Xiang Zhou (University of Michigan)
10:35am-
11:10am
Statistical methods for cross-disease analysis
Buhm Han (ASAN Medical Center)
11:10am-
11:45am
Statistical significance of marker combinations: theory and applications
Jun Sese (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
11:45am- 1:05pm
Lunch (80min)

Session 5: Immuno-genomics and iPS

1:05pm-
1:40pm
Placing complex disease variants in the context of cellular functions
Gosia Trynka (Sanger Institute)
1:40pm-
2:15pm
Cancer Immunogenomics: Immune-cancer interactions from surveillance to immune escape
Takanori Hasegawa (The University of Tokyo)
2:15pm-
3:05pm
Keynote: Mapping cellular quantitative trait loci in human IPS-based cell model systems
Daniel Gaffney (Sanger Institute)
3:05pm- 3:10pm
Closing Remark
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